Va'al wrote:Deadput wrote:Actually I don't know my mother's name is Valerie so is Va'al actually my mother?
Yes. Now go to your room and don't play with yourself.
ZeroWolf wrote:We don't need more beast wars but more new things like beast wars. Something that takes the old concept and turns it on it's head.
Iron works here is a step in the right direction, taking something old (micromaster bases) and doing something new with it (robot mode)
We need more ideas like that
Leonardo wrote:Take your lips off my pipe!
Skritz wrote:I know and accept that G1 will always win out in the mind of the overall fandom. Right now its fine but after this trilogy, if we get another G1-accurate line with the '84 cast AGAIN...
Edit: Look guys, I'm a 'convert' to the G1 hypetrain and have gotten on board with the Generations when I got back into collecting with Titans Return. If I didn't have some massive appreciation ans growing love for the G1 designs and cast I wouldn't be collecting this stuff. Its just I worry a lot about stagnation once the initial 'whoa' factor of these mini-Masterpiece, mass retail G1 remake figures runs out.
Sentinel_Primal wrote:I truly would love to believe that we'll move past G1 after WFC, but at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if HasTak is doing the MP route of "Well, time to update a figure that's already good enough". I mean, we get a new Prime every year that updates the G1 design more and more. Aside from the evolution gimmick, POTP Prime was a fairly decent budget MP. It had the trailer, the right size for bot mode, and the removable matrix. But now we have the new Prime that's closer to MP10. Only negative is the replacement of blue hands for grey hands and the yellow eyes. I wouldn't be surprised if next year they announced the Prime for part 3 is basically a "perfect version" of this year's. At this point, I'd even settle for going back to what Prime Wars did in terms of design, or even switching over to the IDW-1 designs for a year.
All that said, if HasTak decides to throw a wrench in the works after Earthrise and do a leader Thunderclash instead of Prime (with the obvious recolor being Machine Wars Prime), bring in a Commander Class Star Saber, leader Victory Leo, and/or have a leader class Deathsaurus, then I will officially give up making predictions for where they're going, shut up and just enjoy the figures they put out
Sentinel_Primal wrote:I truly would love to believe that we'll move past G1 after WFC, but at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if HasTak is doing the MP route of "Well, time to update a figure that's already good enough".
Skritz wrote:Of course, at the same time from a business standpoint I understand they will want to keep all those marketable basic characters on shelves as much as they can on a X year span so anyone who jumps into collecting after Prime Wars and WFC want to collect stuff without relying on the after market.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Hot Shot is part of the Selects line, not Siege itself.
Wolfman Jake wrote:So, with the conclusion of Siege, we'll still be two major Soundwave minions short: Buzzsaw and Frenzy (blue guy). These are easy repaints and should eventually show up in some way or another. They can easily be slotted into Earthrise as a third and final "Soundwave Spy Patrol" of the Micromaster assortment. But, would Hasbro hesitate to do so if there is no compatible Soundwave toy to go with them? Might that mean that, like Optimus Prime and Starscream, we'll be getting an "Earthmode" Soundwave in Earthrise? Or, maybe Ratbat and Frenzy will be relegated to the Generations Selects line? Or maybe Hasbro doesn't care about having Soundwave on the shelves "concurrent" with these last two Micromasters?
Microbot wrote:Wolfman Jake wrote:So, with the conclusion of Siege, we'll still be two major Soundwave minions short: Buzzsaw and Frenzy (blue guy). These are easy repaints and should eventually show up in some way or another. They can easily be slotted into Earthrise as a third and final "Soundwave Spy Patrol" of the Micromaster assortment. But, would Hasbro hesitate to do so if there is no compatible Soundwave toy to go with them? Might that mean that, like Optimus Prime and Starscream, we'll be getting an "Earthmode" Soundwave in Earthrise? Or, maybe Ratbat and Frenzy will be relegated to the Generations Selects line? Or maybe Hasbro doesn't care about having Soundwave on the shelves "concurrent" with these last two Micromasters?
I think we will get an earthrise Soundwave mode for getting Blaster too
Wolfman Jake wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Hot Shot is part of the Selects line, not Siege itself.
Hot Shot is part of the Siege sub-brand of the "Generations Selects" line, though, so he fits with Siege just as well as someone like Red Wing does. Remember, Red Swoop and Ricochet came in "Power of the Primes" boxes under Selects instead, so Selects isn't something wholly unto itself, but rather an online outlet for figures that aren't slated to be released and wide brick and mortar retail for a given line.
Jeddostotle7 wrote:I still think, as has been mentioned in this thread before I believe, that since the main generation that grew up with G1 is getting older, and thus is soon going to be much less likely to be getting toys, they're doing everything they can to basically "finish up" G1 characters and make as new toys of as many of them as possible, and that whatever comes after this trilogy, while it may not be a straight-up full-on switch to focusing on other aspects of the franchise, it'll start the transition away from primarily G1.
Zeedust wrote:Jeddostotle7 wrote:I still think, as has been mentioned in this thread before I believe, that since the main generation that grew up with G1 is getting older, and thus is soon going to be much less likely to be getting toys, they're doing everything they can to basically "finish up" G1 characters and make as new toys of as many of them as possible, and that whatever comes after this trilogy, while it may not be a straight-up full-on switch to focusing on other aspects of the franchise, it'll start the transition away from primarily G1.
I'd love to share your optimism, but with Cyberverse also being retro-G1, I'm inclined to be skeptical.
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